Vintage Antennas: A 3D-Printed Future
This paper presents the “reflector-horn array,” a novel configuration of the classical horn-reflector antenna developed for the 2024 Student Design Competition on “mmWave Dual-Band 3D-Printed Antenna Design.” The proposed array is composed of two truncated reflector antennas. The antenna is 3D-printed and silver-coated. It achieves a 54.9% height reduction compared to the traditional design, with an average gain of 27.35 dB and a mean aperture efficiency of 69.28% over a 40.6% bandwidth, which was validated by the measurements. Compared to the classical reflector antenna, the only drawback is a 10.55 dB increase in the side lobe level.
Authors
- Dominik Langer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-8119)
- Alexander Koelpin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9071-5661)
- Frederike Bartels
Institutions
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- Hamburg University of Technology (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Microwave Magazine
- Published
- 2025-05-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/mmm.2025.3536791
- Primary Topic
- Antenna Design and Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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